West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-08-25

pei platform so large that all who receive
Christ may stand on IL,
think we may overthrow the severe sec
tarianism and bigotry in our hearts. and i'm
the church also, by realizing that all the do
nominations OF Christians have yielded noble
institutions and noble men. There is nothing
that so stirs my soul as this thought One
denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an
Adoniram Judson; another yielded a Lati-
mer and Melville; another yielded John
Wesley and the blessed Summerfield, while
our own denomination yielded John Knox
and the AleSanders-men OF whom the world
was not worthy. Now say, IL we arc hon
est and fair-minded men, when we come up
in the presence OF such churches and such do
nominations, although they may be- different
from our own. we ought to admire them and
we ought 10 love and honor them Churches
which can produce such men, aud such large
hearted charity, and such magnificent mar
tyrdom, ought TO win our affection-at any
rate, our respect. So come on, We 400 600
Episcopal;ans in this country, and We 1000
Presbyterians, and We ESQ, 900 Baptists, and
We nearly 3,150,GO) McthOdists-come on.
shoulder 10 shoulder we will march for the
worlds conquest; for all nations are 10 be
saved, and God demands that you and helm
do IL. Forward, the whole line.
Moreover, we may also overthrow the feel
ing OF severe sectarianism by joining other
denominations i'm Christian work 1 like
when the springtime comes and the anniver
come up on the same platform. That over.
throws sectariansm. In the Young Mems
Christian association, in the Bible society. in
tho Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary
society, shoulder TO shoulder all denomina.
lions.
Perhaps I might more forcibly illustrate
this truth by calling your attention TO an in
cident which took place fourteen or fifteen
years ago. One Monday morning at about
o'clock, while her 800 passengers were sound
asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the
steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head.
F1ve hundred souls i'm ten minutes landed i'm
eternityl oh, what a scenel Agonized men
and women running up aud down the gang
ways and clutching for the rigging, and the
plunge OF tho helpless steamer, and the clap
ping OF the hands OF tho merciles sea over
the drowning and the dead, threw two CONT
nents into terror. But see this brave guar
termaster pushing out with the lifeline until
he gets to the rock; and see these fishermen
gathering up the shipwrecke1 and tax
ing them into the cabins and wrapping
them in the flapnels snug and warm; and sea
that minister OF the Gospel with three other
men getting into q lifobolt and pushing ont
for the wreck, pulling away across the surf
and pulling away until thoy save one moro
man, and then getting back with him to tho
shore. Can those men ever forget that night
ana can they ever forget their companion
chip in peril, companionship in struggle. com
pahionship ip awful catastrophe and rescuel
Neverl Never In whatever part of the
earth they meet they VIII bs friends when
they mention the story of that awful night
when the Atlantic struck Mars Head
Well, my friend, our world has gone into n
worse splpwreck. Sin drove il ON the rocks
The old ship has lurche and tossed in the
tempests of six thousand years Out with the
life Incl do not care what denomination
CARRIES u. Out with tho lifeboatl 1 do not
care what denomination rows it, Side by
side in the memory OF common hardships and
common trials, and common prayers and
common tears. let US be brothers forever
We must be- We must be-
ONO army OF the living God
To whose command we bow
Part Of the host nave GRO FSd the food
And part are crossing nov
And expect 10 SEQ the day when all do
nominations of Christian, shall ioin hands
around the cross of hrist ard re lite the
creed 81 believe in Col tn Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and eIr.h, and in Jesus
Christ, and in the communion o. $ nts, and
in the life everlasthgP May God ispr, us
all with the largest hearted Chrlstiah charity
Workingmen and Drink,
T; V. -Powderly says in the Journal of
United Labor: In the City of New York
alone IT IS estimated that not less than $3.50
600 day aye spent for drink; 81, 500, 900 in
ons week; 1000 in one year. Who will
dispute it when say that one half Of the DO
licemep Of New York City are employed to
watch the beings who squander $75, 100000 a
year, Who viii dispute IL when / say that
the money spent in paying the salaries and
expenses of half Of tho police az New
York could be saved to the taxpayers IL S75,-
OOJ,OOO were not devoted to making drunk.
ards, thieves prostitutes, and other subjects
Tor TIE policemens net to gather inl If $3.50
DOO go oyer The counters of the rumseller i'm
one day in New York City alone, who will
dare TO assert that woFkingpien do not pay
one-fifth, or $4,000, of that sunni IL WORK.
ingmen in New York City spend $4,000 a
day for drink, they spend $4,000 a week,
leaving Sunday out. In four weeks thew
spend 81 200, 0Og-oyer twice as much money
as was paid In the general assembly of the
Knights Of Labor in nine years In six weeks
they spend 81 500, 000-9early three times as
much money as that army Of organized work.
ers, the Knights of Labor, have spent from
the day the general assembly was first called
70 oTdor up to the present day; and in one
year tie worlClgmen of New York City alone
VIII have spent for beer and rum Sl5, 600. 600.
or eaGuRh 70 purchase and Equip frst-class
telegraph Inns Of their own SIS, GO0OCO-
enough money TO invest in such co-opefative
enterprises as would forever end the strike
and lockout asa means Of settling disputes in
SapOr circles